The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-04-12
FATAL ROW.
FATAL ROW.
Rival 'Colonists Engage in a
Riot at Denver.
WARD. THE COMEDIAN. SHOT.
Shocking Accident in PennsYlvaaia
Coal Mine-KiIled the Wrong
MRD-Other Notes.
WARD. TIE COMEDIAN. SHOT
A Big Row.

DENVER, April ia bloody riot
occurred. late last night. between rival
Swede, Pole and Hungarian colonies
at Thirty four and Blake Streets,
which resulted IN the fatal shooting of
one man and the seriously wounding OF
several others, and it was with the
combined efforts of the pol ce force and
patrol wagon that the affair was pre-
vented from resulting in wholes le
massacre. The settlement where the
riot occurred is composed of twenty
five or thirty families, who live in small,
one-stoTy tenement houses, not more
than ten by twenty feet square, the men
mostly being employed in smelters ana
foundries located in the neighborhood.
The me-, grew out of long standing
jealousy in the settlement over
u young Polish woman, Alice
Falka. who, yesterday morning,
left the settlement on the south side of
the street, spending the day with the
rival colony on the north side. In
honor of her visit, several kegs of beer
were tapped. which caused frequent
brawls during The afternoon and until
late in the evening when the mob,
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adjoining the one where fifteen or
twenty men were celebrating The visit
of the girl. Mr.. and Mrs. Rnaudo. rivals
OF their neighbors. prepared to celebrate
the christening of an eight months old
cklld, and had invited number of
fri, nds and also laid in supply OF beer,
garlic and other delicacies of their race.
The Knaudo crowd reached an
advanced state of intoxicatien
by midnight, and one part of them
going to the front, pavement at this
hour, accidentally met member from
the other house situated not over ten or
fifteen feet away. A fight Immediately
ensued. The Knaudo crowd, reinforced
from those inside, drove their rivals
into their den, when the widest scene
took place. Chairs, tables and bed
steads were broken up and the pieces
used as weapons to pound each other
over head. Many were knocked sense
less and tramped under foot, until life
was almost extinct. PlaSteTing was
torn from the walls and every glass in
the house was smashed, until it looked
like 1t had been raked with grape and
canister. After a bitter fight. the
Knaudo crowd were driven TO
their house where the same
scene was enacted. Several shots
were fired, and a Pole named Rib
oritch was fatally shot and others were
seriously wounded. The police in the
neighborhood attempted to quiet the
disturbance and made an arrest. but
were driven away by the mob. Rein
forcements were sent for. The Central
Station patrol wagon Immediately re-
sponded, and twelve policemen, armed
with Winchesters, surrounded the
the houses. The mob at first attempted
to resist and made q dash at the OFF,
GERS, armed with clubs, knives and re
volvers, but when met by bluecoats
ready 10 fire into them they fell back
and made little resistance. when part
were loaded INTO the wagon and driven
rapidly to the station. Several trips
were made by the patrol, until nearly
thirty had been arrested and jailed. It is
supposed that many escaped. But one or
two of the prisoners can speak English.
They are ragged, dirty, spattered with
blood and dirt and have the appear
ance of the lowest type of humanity.
They were sent to Denver a week ago
direct from Hungary, Poland, Bohemia
and other parts of Europe, and with
out doabt belong to that class whose
only argument is the dynamite bomb.